re: Will baseball always allow the richest teams to buy their wins, or will it ever…

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They drafted and developed well.

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Altuve, Bregman, Tucker, Yordan, Correa, Yuli, LMJ, Framber, Garcia, etc all came from the farm. Yordan came from a trade with the Dodgers while he was still in the minors, but still counts because that's all scouting.

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I’m not positive, but I doubt it is common that the highest paid player on your payroll misses two complete seasons and is likely to never play for the organization again. I’m not positive, but I doubt it is common that the highest paid player on your payroll misses two complete seasons and is likely to never play for the organization again.

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I really do hope that Verlander comes back with a discount considering how he has made $66 million in the last two seasons and made what, 1 appearance last year?

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It was essentially the same type of deal the Yankees had in place, not sure the prospects but the money was similar. Stanton said he wasn't going to St. Louis though as he had his 10/5 rights

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Stanton's contract was signed with the Marlins. The only issue was how much any other team was going to pay, and how much the Marlins would have to retain. I don't see how the Cardinals could have paid the same percentage of his salary that the Yankees did, without destroying the rest of their roster. And He also didn't have 10/5 rights, as he hadn't been in the league for ten years. The Marlins gave him a no trade clause. Which I think is dumb. 300 plus million wasn't enough, he had to have a no trade clause. The Marlins got hosed on their return because of that.

A third of this season is still 50 more games than JV has played in the past 2 years

Yea, not sure if sportrac website is correct, but it has the stros as the 3rd highest active payroll and 4 overall roster. But the dodgers are so far ahead it’s silly

What does the length of time not played have to do with it? All of these teams signed players to contracts regardless of the amount of games they would play.

Braves have been without Soroka for 2 seasons now. Acuna has missed half of this year. Ozuna is in legal trouble after getting hurt and has missed basically the entire season.

Bauer is suspended because he's kinky and some whore wants his money. Kershaw is hurt. Muncy is hurt. Turner is hurt. Hamels never saw the field (same shite in Atlanta last year)

All of these teams are paying guys to not play right now, so no, you can't play the "remove this guy's salary because it makes my team look better" game

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Do it the right way? Are you guys fricking kidding me? They tanked for multiple straight seasons while losing over 100 games a year to get the team they now have.

Give me a break

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I'm not even an Astros fan, I'm a Braves fan. And I'm not talking about tanking (which is hard to prove that they did), nor am I talking any sign stealing shenanigans. The fact is that they scouted, drafted and developed well, as did my Braves, and as have the Rays. When you are a lower budget team, you don't "tank", as in not try to win games, but you have to sell off high priced assets when they are not getting you over the hump, so that you can attain prospects.

When you do this, you're going to lose for a while, whether you try to or not. And you have to take advantage of the draft position you have, as well as hit on multiple guys in later rounds. You don't build a franchise with just first rounders. You have to find guys all over the draft, as well as the international market that you can develop and either use or flip for someone you can use. That's the "right way" I'm referring to.

Mets $166mm and nothing to show for it

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The luxury tax is 210 mil I believe. The dodgers are uh not 20 mil below the luxury tax level